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The Art of War: A New Translation
ISBN: 9781838866327 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is still used as a book of military strategy today. Napoleon, Mae Zedong, General Vo Nguyen Giap and General Douglas MacArthur all claimed to have drawn inspiration from it. And beyond the world of war, business and management gurus have also applied Sun Tzu’s ideas to office politics and corporate strategy. Using a new translation by James Trapp and including editorial notes, this bilingual edition of The Art of War lays the original Chinese text opposite the modern English translation. The book contains the full original 13...
Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is still used as a book of military strategy today. Napoleon, Mae Zedong, General Vo Nguyen ...
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Hong Kong's Second Return to China: A Critical Discourse Study of the National Security Law and its Aftermath
ISBN: 9783031845864 / Angielski / Twarda / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a cross-disciplinary study, incorporating political science, law, and sociolinguistics in its examination of Hong Kong’s National Security Law which has impacted many aspects of life in the city. Through a critical discourse analysis lens, it details the lead-up to the Law’s introduction in 2020, a textual analysis of the Law itself, the “selling” the Law to the public, the accompanying electoral changes, the effect on civil society, and the discourse of dissidents in exile. It ends with speculation on what the future will bring to the so-called “One Country, Two...
This book is a cross-disciplinary study, incorporating political science, law, and sociolinguistics in its examination of Hong Kong’s National Secur...
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484,18 |
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Whither Class?: The Event of Literature in Revolutionary and Postrevolutionary China
ISBN: 9789819604531 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues that the revolutionary, anti-revolutionary, counter-revolutionary, and post-revolutionary dialectics in modern Chinese history since the early-20th century characterizes modern and contemporary Chinese literature the most. Central to these dialectics are issues of class. The book contends that one cannot fully understand modern and contemporary Chinese literature without understanding the class character of Chinese revolutionary and counter-revolutionary struggles, including literary practices and their various contradictions. Considering literature via the notion of...
This book argues that the revolutionary, anti-revolutionary, counter-revolutionary, and post-revolutionary dialectics in modern Chinese history since ...
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Ten Lectures on the Cultural Legacy of Dream of the Red Chamber
ISBN: 9789819619689 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a profound exploration of the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, recognized as a masterpiece of traditional Chinese literature. Developed from a series of lectures at the Shanghai Library, the text features insights from ten prominent scholars, including Wang Meng and Bai Xianyong, addressing themes such as poetic aesthetics, tragic beauty, female perspectives, and cultural symbolism. The chapters delve into multifaceted interpretations, connecting literature with cultural, philosophical, and artistic heritage. Designed for both specialists and general readers,...
This book offers a profound exploration of the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, recognized as a masterpiece of traditional Chinese lite...
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Twenty Years of China’s Ageing Society: Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects
ISBN: 9789819626526 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an in-depth study of the ageing problem in China from a multidisciplinary perspective. For the first time in Chinese history, it systematically summarizes the development process, achievements and challenges of China from the year 2000 to 2020, and illustrates the exploration process of the theory and practice to actively address population ageing with Chinese characteristics.
This book is an in-depth study of the ageing problem in China from a multidisciplinary perspective. For the first time in Chinese history, it syste...
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Traditional Chinese Music Research: An Insider's Exploration
ISBN: 9789819763931 / Angielski / Twarda / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides valuable insights into some of the key issues in Chinese music research, spanning both historical and contemporary contexts. It employs analytical methodologies to explore the forms, sources, and historical materials of traditional Chinese music. By merging contemporary ethnomusicological methods with historical Chinese music theories centered on mathematical concepts, it offers a comprehensive approach. Detailed analyses of music sources and literature reviews of current research make this work indispensable for anyone interested in the scope, methodologies, and current...
This book provides valuable insights into some of the key issues in Chinese music research, spanning both historical and contemporary contexts. It e...
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Il Vento e l'Albero: Racconti zen che vi aiuteranno a superare l'ansia, trovare la pace interiore e riscoprire la gioia nelle piccole cose
ISBN: 9798304335768 / Włoski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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58,59 |
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China's Belt and Road Power Transition: Preparations and Blowbacks
ISBN: 9798855800920 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Details the Belt and Road global infrastructure development initiative as the most important instrument for China's leadership under Xi Jinping to create an alternative global economic and geopolitical order to challenge the United States. In the opening decades of the twenty-first century the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership under Xi Jinping has created a worldwide Sino-centric network, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), to challenge American dominance in world affairs. Encompassing economic, financial, political, and strategic relations, the CCP's belief is that the funds,...
Details the Belt and Road global infrastructure development initiative as the most important instrument for China's leadership under Xi Jinping to cre...
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Reading the Analects Today
ISBN: 9798855802801 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of China's most prominent contemporary philosophers reads and comments on one of the central texts in the Chinese philosophical tradition. In this book, one of contemporary China's most prominent philosophers, Li Zehou, explores one of the central texts in the Chinese philosophical tradition, the Analects of Confucius. While the book provides an introduction to the Analects itself and to Confucianism in general, it also serves as an introduction to Li's own thought, particularly the ways in which he regarded the Confucian tradition as relevant to postrevolutionary contemporary China. Key...
One of China's most prominent contemporary philosophers reads and comments on one of the central texts in the Chinese philosophical tradition. In thi...
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486,78 |
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The USChina Rift and Its Impact on Globalisation: Crisis, Strategy, Transitions
ISBN: 9798888903513 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, globalisation has entered a critical phase of slowdown. The asymmetrical US-China relationship that has been the fundamental axis up to now has entered into crisis. The financial imperialism of the dollar proves to be increasingly burdensome and destabilizing. The rise of capitalist China is questioning US imperialist levy. The US-China Rift and Its Impact on Globisation offers a comprehensive analysis of the looming confrontation, while identifying potential points of no return in the intertwined dynamics of the world market, geopolitical configurations, and class relationships....
Today, globalisation has entered a critical phase of slowdown. The asymmetrical US-China relationship that has been the fundamental axis up to now has...
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The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing
ISBN: 9798987053720 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma willing to court danger to help one another? The political situations in Burma, Thailand, and Hong Kong are radically different. Only Burma is in a state of civil war. Only Hong Kong has changed in just a few years from a place with virtually no political prisoners to one with many. Only Thailand is a monarchy with lèse-majesté laws. Yet, many young activists and exiles from these regions feel that their struggles are connected. Historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom met dozens of dissidents, including Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, known for his...
Why are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma willing to court danger to help one another? The political situations in Burma, Thailand, and H...
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The Untold Story of China's Nuclear Weapon Development and Testing
ISBN: 9780262051828 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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194,71 |
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The Making of the Chinese Civilization
ISBN: 9789819942152 / Angielski / Miękka / 489 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book involves collection of papers primarily focused on the origin and development of Chinese civilization in the concept of archaeological context from the 6000 BCE to 1300 BCE through archaeological cultural perspectives. It systematically illustrates the prehistoric cultural history of China at the period from Neolithic to the early Bronze Age during 20000-1300 BCE, composing not only the proper region around the Central Plain but also the margin areas mainly in the west, and examines the cultural relationship and exchanges nationally and internationally through thousand years of...
This book involves collection of papers primarily focused on the origin and development of Chinese civilization in the concept of archaeological conte...
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Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism
ISBN: 9780691229607 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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95,79 |
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Embedded Generations: Family Life and Social Change in Contemporary China
ISBN: 9780691258393 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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544,05 |
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Embedded Generations: Family Life and Social Change in Contemporary China
ISBN: 9780691258409 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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128,10 |
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Pictures of Cotton in Eighteenth-Century China
ISBN: 9781032888019 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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705,83 |
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Mei Lanfang's American Journey: Reimagining Transpacific Cultural Exchange
ISBN: 9783031874796 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking study examines Peking Opera legend Mei Lanfang’s 1930 U.S. visit through extensive primary sources and a cross-cultural lens. It meticulously chronicles his 76 performances over 182 days, reconstructing his daily itinerary, highlighting key events, and estimating box office revenues. Drawing on over 1,000 local newspaper reports from 34 states and territories, as well as diaries, memoirs, archival records, and advertisements, this book offers fresh insights into U.S.-China cultural exchange nearly a century ago—a topic with enduring contemporary relevance. Employing a...
This groundbreaking study examines Peking Opera legend Mei Lanfang’s 1930 U.S. visit through extensive primary sources and a cross-cultural lens. It...
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The Road Taken: China’s Incorporation Process into the Capitalist World System and Its Capitalist Transition
ISBN: 9798855803075 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces China's transformations with a focus on China's incorporation process in the nineteenth century, which help to grasp the historical origins of China's capitalism. As Europe's colonial powers reached China in the nineteenth century, they became so strong that China could no longer ignore them. Given that the unprecedented geographical expansion of the European system undermined a China-centered world order and brought unprecedented changes to Chinese society, an intriguing question—why and how the Chinese empire entered into the capitalist world economy—has attracted increasing...
Traces China's transformations with a focus on China's incorporation process in the nineteenth century, which help to grasp the historical origins of ...
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522,65 |
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A Notional Analysis of Chinese Academic Discourse on China: Centennial Reflection on China's Revolutionary Road
ISBN: 9781032552446 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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209,27 |